Quotes About Inflation

It looked as though someone had come through with a pump and inflated everything in the scene by thirty percent, highway and cars and all, before going away satisfied.

It's very difficult for the middle class in America to keep up because of the inflationary pressure and the devaluation of the dollar.

The dollar has lost over 95 percent of its value since the Fed was created.

The dot-com and housing bubbles can both be explained by artificial credit expansion, say such economists.

Although the word 'economy' may bring the term money to the minds of many, the truth is that for the whole of society money is nothing more than an artificial instrument that allows real things to be done, otherwise , the government could make us all rich simply by printing more bills. It is not money but the volume of goods and services that determines whether a country is poor or prosperous.

In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.

Many platforms issue the governance token via an inflation schedule that incentivizes people to use particular features of the platform, ensuring the governance token is distributed directly to them.

In order to compensate for its chaotic formlessness, a mass always produces a "Leader," who almost infallibly becomes the victim of his own inflated ego-consciousness, as numerous examples in history show.

month after Jeanne died, Michelle received a bill for her mother's twenty-three-hour hospitalization. It totaled $22,402. (Adjusted for inflation, the amount would exceed $27,000 in 2012.) The bill included $6,750 for twenty-two separate blood tests, $1,077 for three electrocardiograms, $4,187 for a CAT scan of her head, $776 for three X-rays of her abdomen, $296 for a chest X-ray, and $3,246 for three ultrasound tests.

The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.

When inflation begins to rise, that's a situation we know how to deal with. When the economy is not doing well, and we're stuck at zero, that's one we don't know so much about - or we know about it that it's bad.

At the end of the day, it's not a normal condition to have interest rates at zero.

I do know that throughout history, all paper money has eventually come back to its true value, which is zero.

However, in spite of the general perception that monetary policy should be conducted so as to avert deflation, a central bank cannot lower interest rates below the zero lower bound.

Housing was ground zero for the Great Recession. Between early 2006 and Obama's inauguration in 2009, average house prices fell by a third across the country. In certain areas, including cities as diverse as Akron, Orlando and Las Vegas, house prices fell by more than half.

Near-zero policy rates that may be considerably expansionary in an economy with high inflation could be contractionary when inflation is too close to zero, or worse, deflation has set in.

After the accession to the euro zone, interest rates declined substantially in Portugal.

The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

One man's wage rise is another man's price increase.

Inflation is defined as the quality that makes balloons larger and candy bars smaller.

Inflation is one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.

However, this President sees no problem eliminating funding for Perkins Loans in his budget, even though the cost of tuition is rising and will continue to rise as the administration's policies force inflation.

The Fed cannot levitate markets forever. And when they finally do move, I think we have to be prepared for a considerable amount of turbulence.

The history of the twentieth century - America's century! - has been pretty much a history of rising prices.